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Thanks for all the support out there, especially to Reflektorfalke and robbie! It helps me keep motivated on this!

The next version looks promising I might have to delay it a bit to get all the pieces together though...

It's not really meant for adding an extra layer. It's to show that it's pretty easy to create a parser. If you leave out the function to fetch the remote page, it's only 20 lines of php. And it should be fairly simple to program in another language.

I'm happy to announce QSportsEvent 0.0.4! This is the first truly usable version of the app!

IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT YOU FIRST UNINSTALL ANY PREVIOUS VERSION!

What's new?

• Everything!!

How to use? There are 6 tabs:
1. Select: From here you can select any of the leagues that are available. Once selected, you will immediately be shown the 3:Matches tab for that league. Please note that not 100% of them work, but that is more likely to be due to SoccerDB. If there is one you want, please check with SoccerDB to see if it works there. If it does, I'll look at it in QSportsEvent.
2. Favourites: I provide a list of default favourites. You can select and remove if you don't want them. To add favourites, first chose a league from under 1:Select. The currently selected league will be added to favourites if you click the Add button. In the future you will be able to enter a URL which will be displayed in tab 5:News. I probably should go straight to 3:Matches even here when a league is selected.
3: Matches: The most recent games of the select league.
4: Table: The updated table for the selected league.
5: News: News for the selected league. At the moment is only badly displays the RSS feed for Italian Serie A from SkySports.
6: Update Scores: A link back to SoccerDB where you can update scores yourself(!). Oops! I haven't tested this at all as I didn't want to mess around with the SoccerDB data, so I'm not sure it will work. Please, be careful when you update there!

ToDo:

• Investigate the auto-shutdown issue (This is the killer of the app. If I want it to have a future, I've got to fix this. Interestingly, it is a bug it shares with my other Qt app for Maemo, QTeachMe...)
• Warning! The very first time I launched it after installation it died straight away. On subsequent attempts it does stay alive long enough to be able to have a look at it at least.
• Change font colour in 'Favourites' tab to black.
• Proper display of the RSS feed (it looked nice on my Windows version...)
• RSS URL to be editable and working in the Favourites tab
• Use the better application icons (it still uses the super boring one from the previous version!)
• Add icons in the screens (flags and logos)
• Provide for offline data.
• Portrait mode...

Looking forward to your comments!

PS! I didn't even bother to try to upload it to Extras-Devel this time, so if you want it, it's from here you should get it.

Great thanks to those who have made contributions!

/Magnus

EDIT: .deb file removed as there are newer ones available.

This community just amazes me. Looks great and will be downloading it later today.

Sweet, installed v0.0.4 without problems!

Awesome job Magnuslu!

I love this app. Great work so far. Do you need anything?

Magnuslu my biggest compliments - this app is on its way to be one of the TOP apps for Maemo :-) !
(ok, for now the auto-showdown is still a showstopper, but hey its v0.0.4 and no final release)

Ok, here is my feedback for 0.0.4 so far
(including some minor things, especially like design/optical issues that are not really important at this stage.
Not to bother you, just for completeness ;-) ):

General: While the app starts, the open tasks screen shows up, thats a little bit confusing
Scrollbars look different in each screen. Personally I prefer the grey one, or stay with the color theme - light blue back, dark blue bar?

Tabs: Is it possible to make the icons slightly bigger and align them in the center of the tabs?

Select: Wouldn´t it be nicer to have the background fixed?
Maybe increase the font size to make it more finger friendly?

Favourites: Again, fixed Background?
Font color black for readability and font size bigger for finger friendliness?
Add/Remove bigger with a nice button? (ok, just noticed the feature is not yet implemented ;-) )
Can the list be sorted? e.g. move up/down buttons...
On start no favourite is highlighted, no prob, but when an entry is highlighted, the table header font changes to bold
No idea what the "default" column means and why the entries can be edited, but I am sure you have something in mind here ;-)

Matches: Nice, especially with the todays result of my favourite club (won 7-0, now everyone may guess what it is ;-) )
Scrolling works only with the scrollbar, but not in the screen itself
A feature to switch matchdays forward/backward would be nice, possible?
Update button to refresh the results would be nice - even better would be the "deluxe solution" see below "New Tab"

Tables: Table is not scrolable till the end
Again, feature to switch matchdays?

New Tab "Live Scores"?: A live scores feature with auto-update or even push functionality would be really awesome!!!


Thats it for now from me...
Hope more testers will share there feedback and ideas :-)

Thanks again Magnuslu for your great job!

Install the app and test... find bugs, enhance the graphics, come up with nice feature ideas

Yepp. Just about everything you have reported is on my radar (and a few more...). Most of them are due to the way I do development. As this is Qt, I can run the app just nicely on Windows. I spend 99% of my time developing, debugging and fixing on the Windows version. When the day comes to an end, I make the effort to create a debian package to install on the device. A whole bunch of things only emerge when I test on the target device, but by that time it is too late at night to get back and start fixing again... Especially 'fingerscrollable', sizes, some colours, some HTML/URL rendering, ... But please, do continue to provide feedback! It helps me setting priorities for the issues to fix.

Hi,

created two more baclkground drafts...just to give the community something to discuss - please give feedback which one you like best, what you like and what you dont like.

Of course suggestions on improvement as well as enhanced or totally new drafts are more than welcome!!!